In The Inside Story (Java, Microsoft and MySQL), Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogs about how Microsoft paid them to bundle software with the Java runtime. He mentions that "just last month, we distributed more than 60,000,000 Java runtimes". According to Sourceforge, over 500,000 downloads per day are of the Azureus filesharing client, which is a Java application. This is currently the most popular project on Sourceforge, and the #2 project of all time. So as many as 15 million of those 60 million Java runtimes that Microsoft is helping to fund may be downloaded specifically to share files. I doubt this is something Mirosoft was intending when they decided to do this.

Headache? You Skipped Your Coffee. No kidding. I was ingesting over 500mg of caffeine per day (six double lattes or six cans of Red Bull = 480mg) and had unpredictable splitting headaches and nausea as side effects. I quit in early December and haven't had caffeine since. I'll probably start again with much more controlled amounts but so far it's nice not to feel awful all the time.

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